Antique Victorian Wedgwood Beanes Patent Tea Infuser Urn Green Floral Gilt 35cm

A Victorian Wedgwood tea infuser, impressed WEDGWOOD and BEANES PATENT TEA INFUSER to the underside of the plinth. It stands 35cm high and is of urn form: a fluted domed cover with button finial, a cylindrical upper section, and an urn-shaped lower body with moulded scroll handles and a metal tap with shell-form thumbpiece, raised on a slender stem and a square plinth with scroll feet.

The decoration is printed with flowering branches in turquoise and green with ochre foliage, framed by green geometric borders and gilt lines, and the cover and lower body are finely fluted.

Patent tea infusers of this kind were made by Wedgwood in the 19th century to brew tea and dispense it through the tap. A comparable example, decorated in blue, is held in the V&A Wedgwood Collection at Barlaston (accession WE.5023:1-2014), bearing the same impressed WEDGWOOD and Beanes Patent Tea Infuser marks.

Marks: impressed WEDGWOOD and BEANES PATENT TEA INFUSER to the plinth underside; red painted pattern numbers to the underside and inside the cover.

Condition: there are various chips, including a chip to the rim of the upper section, a chip to the inner rim of the cover, a chip to the rim of the lower body, and hairline cracks visible to the inside of the domed cover. Wear to the gilding, particularly the feet, and crazing and light staining throughout, consistent with age. The metal tap is present. Please study all photographs, which form part of the description.

Dimensions: height 35cm.

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